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Email Spam Blocker
- Many spam emails are often sent out from a army of zombie pc's (computers that have been hijacked by spammers) that leave no trace back to the original sender.
- An Email Service Provider (ESP) is a company which sells email management solutions to others and sometimes ESPs may handle mass mailings for others.
- a method of blocking spam which requires the sender of the email to manually respond to a verification message sent to them.
- The authors of e-mail software currently in use must not be doing enough, otherwise ther would be a complete cure for email spam by now!Block List: A publicised list, usually commercial, of ip addresses known to be sources of spam.
- A block list is also a feature of anti-spam software that allows users to designate ip addresses, domain names and individual email addresses from which no mail will be accepted.
- Allow list: A list of external email addresses, IP addresses and domains trusted by the entire organisation or individual users.
- Hotmail has a user reporting feature, the moment hotmail users spot a spam email, they are encouraged to report it back to hotmail.
- This database is often referred to by microsoft's email products for anti-spamming.
- With spam mails flooding your inbox, you might accidentally be filtering important emails!It is estimated that 58 billion junk emails will be sent every day within the next four years, a figure that will cost businesses some $198 billion annually.
- Ham: All email that a recipient does not consider to be spam.
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